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The 2020 Grammy nominations are out, and there's a lot to discuss. Let's work our way through the big storylines.

Over the last couple years, there's been a small but growing festival called Synästhesie taking place in Berlin. Its roots are very much specific to…

"This room is wild," Adrianne Lenker said Monday night from her perch at stage left. "I feel like I'm in a barn, but, like, on…

Every year, the charmingly, quirkily named festival Le Guess Who? takes over Utrecht for a weekend in November, with shows spread out across venues around…

"Bitch, where were you when I was walkin'?" It was a fair question from Kendrick Lamar Duckworth considering how many people had glommed on to…

Some albums are just mysteries. They have their time and place, and yet resist their context. They are slow to unfold and get their due,…

2019 should, for all intents and purposes, be the best year the Wu-Tang Clan has had in a long, long time. They have not one,…

Desert Daze is, predominantly, a psych fest -- it's in the name, location, and in their primary booking. But every year, the festival returns --…

Behold the insane power of Ween's enduring, dedicated following. On Saturday at Desert Daze, the band used most of their two-hour set time to perform…

By accident or influence, California's Desert Daze is picking up a lot of the threads that All Tomorrow's Parties left untied after they called it…

When King Crimson's debut album In The Court Of The Crimson King was released, they'd been together less than a year. The original lineup --…

About halfway through her opening set Tuesday, Leslie Feist requested a "people check" from the Schottenstein Center crowd shrouded in darkness before her. "Let's go…

Bob Seger's "might be the strangest career in the history of rock and roll," wrote Dave Marsh in his 1978 Rolling Stone profile. Two years…

In the 26 years since she released her landmark debut Exile In Guyville, Liz Phair has been witness to just about every form of lunacy…

This past Monday, Thom Yorke brought his live show to an undistinguished corporate rectangle with poor sight lines known as Express Live. On one hand,…